Call for public feedback on additions to the Common Core State Standards

On July 19th, 2010, New York State adopted the Common Core State Standards(CCSS) for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies,Science, and Technical Subjects and CCSS for Mathematics. The Board ofRegents would like your feedback on recommended student expectations to addto the Common Core State Standards. To support the state?s adoption plan, agroup of P-12 and higher education English Language Arts and Mathematicspractitioners met in Albany in July 2010 to analyze the Common Core StateStandards to determine if there are necessary additions for New York State(up to 15% of the whole).

To access the recommended additions and related surveys for English LanguageArts and Mathematics, please go tohttp://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/common_core_standards/ and click on theappropriate link to the subjects. *The surveys will be available fromOctober 20th, 2010 until November 29th, 2010. ***In January 2011, the Board of Regents will review the recommendations anddetermine if they approve the additions, resulting in a new set of P-12English Language Arts and Literacy Standards and P-12 Mathematics Standards.Any questions about the surveys may be sent to emscurric@mail.nysed.gov.